Improvement in staples for satchels



WILLIAM ROE'MER.

7 Staples for Satchels No. 124,449. PatentedMarchl2,,1872.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,449, dated March12, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Staples for Satchels,Carpet-Bags, Valises, &c., invented by WILLIAM ROEMER, of Newark,-c0untyof Essex and State of New Jersey.

This invention consists in the arrangement of lugs or flanches instaples, between which the handle-caps or handles are confined.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents a front View of astaple embodying my invention. Fig. II represents a cross-section of thesame.

B represents the staple, consisting of a bottom flanch, (t, providedwith upright lugs n a, through which the piece m passes and is riveted;or said piece on may be cast into the same. These lugs n a form largeflanches on the ends of the staple-pin m, around which the handle orhandle-cap A works loosely. The staple B is fastened lengthwise upon theframe or frames of the traveling-bag or valise in the usual manner bymeans of screws or rivets passing through the bottom flanch a and theframe of the satchel or carpet-bag. Instead of making the staple asabove described, where the lugs 12 form the flauches at the ends of thepin on to confine the handle-cap, the same may be made as represented inFig. III, where the ends of the pin m are bent downward to form legs,the lower ends of which are attached to the frame of the satchel orcarpet-bag. At the ends of the straight or working part of the pin mflanches or plates 12 n are arranged,

which may be either cast upon the pin m, or fastened on the sides orlegs, and thus form large flanches or projections, between whichthe'handle cap will work and be confined in its proper place. Thearrangement of the flanches n or n at the ends of the pin m confines thepart 00 of the handle-cap A, which turns loosely around the pin m, andprevents the same from working off the straight part of the pin m, as isusually the case where this staple-pin only consists of a piece ofmetal, straight at the middle, where the handle-cap is intended to turn,and then bend downward at each end to form the legs or supports for saidstaple-pin.

I do not claim fastening the staple or stapleframe lengthwise upon thesatchel or traveling-bag; nor do I claim the construction of staples, asabove described, for general purposes; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The herein-described staple for carpet-bags, valises, or satchels,provided with the projection or fianches n or n at each end of thestraight or working part of the staple-pin m, to confine the handle-cap,substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

WILLIAM ROEMER.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, J OSEPH S. DE BARRY.

FFICE.

